Comments on: Thursday Poll: Do you use Google Voice?

By: Elle

Elle — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 02:14:00 +0000

I use it for crazy men. When they start acting up, I designate their number as spam…

By: Jondoezersss

Jondoezersss — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 22:12:00 +0000

I think this depends on the verizon person, and what kind of mood they’re in

By: jayarmstrong

jayarmstrong — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 07:56:00 +0000

the three issues I have with GV are:
-no MMS messages. People assume I got their MMS messages and neither of us knows better. Also, iphones send all group texts as MMS for some reason. I’ve missed a lot of invitations and had some friendships get rocky over that, again, because no one realizes the message didn’t go through.
-voice quality. Worse than your regular cellular call, which is already bad. The delay causes a lot of hassle.
-GV texts don’t integrate into the Android messaging system. It would be *much* nicer to have the option of using the myriad SMS apps out there, which pretty much all work better than GV.

Pro’s: too many to leave it

By: jayray78

jayray78 — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 20:41:00 +0000

BS. Gv doesn’t allow one phone to have two GV numbers assigned to it.

By: cizzlen

cizzlen — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:11:00 +0000

haha oh yeah. you just gave me my newest trolling idea yet. thank you sir.

By: Andy Christiansen

Andy Christiansen — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 21:25:00 +0000

how do you even text in google voice? i don’t see the option

By: Coderedpl

Coderedpl — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 23:05:00 +0000

I’m not sure if this works for everyone or not or how it even works but a few weeks ago someone sent me a picture messages to my google voice number and that picture message showed up in my gmail inbox as coming from the number that sent it to me. BUT for others who tried the same, it didn’t work So i’m not sure how it really works.

I use it for calls, voicemail and text. I just wish my verizon plan was eligible for the verizon “friends or whatever option so i dont have to waste minutes when using google voice

By: brizz

brizz — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 19:46:00 +0000

or you can just switch to gvoice entirely and there will be no confusion as to what number someone would txt you with

By: Brizz

Brizz — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 19:45:00 +0000

why would i care to give out my email or phone number to someone

By: Franklin Hooper

Franklin Hooper — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 19:40:00 +0000

vzw doesnt seem to let me use GV for VVM, i have tried but it says carrier doesnt support, am i doing this wrong or do i have to be rooted to allow that to work properly?

By: GotSka81

GotSka81 — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:03:00 +0000

I love the visual voicemail, and texting is okay (I have an unlimited plan, so it’s not as great as for some), but my biggest gripe is using it for phone calls. It’s nice to have a number I can hand out to sources I don’t trust (companies, bills, etc), but if I use it for friends, I will never get free minutes for calling Verizon to Verizon. When I first decided to use my GV number exclusively, I didn’t realize this and almost went over on minutes. I don’t think there’s a way to fix this, but it’s a shortfall nonetheless.

By: Erica M.

Erica M. — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:51:00 +0000

I think its the best voice mail service ever! I love being able to read my VMs I just wish people would talk more clear so its understood when google translates it to text. lol

By: Robert Hebb

Robert Hebb — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:50:00 +0000

I use google voice to make calls to non verizon numbers for free…Just set up your google voice number as a friends and family number…..then when you call does not use you peak min. was able to take my plan down from unlimited yo having four numbers share 1000 min as we all do the same

By: Christopher Riner

Christopher Riner — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:49:00 +0000

You know, I got google voice for the free visual vm service, and initially thought it was crap because I couldn’t batch delete my vm’s.

But since then- man do I use the sh*t out of this thing. Google voice is absolutely one of my most important apps. I don’t want someone knowing my real number? Perfect give them the google voice. I love having different voicemails for different groups, too. Google voice is one of the coolest things google has done for android, since android. Definitely awesome, and for those people out there who don’t use all of its features– get on your computer and go through the settings. There are tons of awesome things that you can do with google voice.

By: Jump237

Jump237 — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:14:00 +0000

I use it as a work number. This prevents me from carrying two phones. Why two numbers you ask? Privacy i so not want clients to have my personal number. Also i can tuen on do not disturb on.